Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, UK on Dec 2nd, 2009
Most people who follow the climate debate — and many who do not — will have heard about the so-called Climategate. In a nutshell, hackers stole 13 years of emails from leading climate scientists at Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the UK’s University of East Anglia, and published them on the web for all [...]
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Media, Politics on Sep 20th, 2009
This video explains why scientifically-illiterate scallywags* like Anthony Watts don’t understand climate science and never will. I could include links to dozens sites like CO2 Sceptic, the Global Warming Hoax, but I’d prefer not to give them the traffic.
This fantastic video was created by Theramin Trees!
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* I’m one day late for Talk Like A Pirate [...]
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Media, Politics on Aug 20th, 2009
God bless Greenpeace.
Faced with a multimillion dollar media juggernaut devised by the American Petroleum Institute (API), Greenpeace countered with simplicity and honesty: A grassroots campaign that speaks the truth to power, and turns up the heat on oil executives.
To cut to the chase, last week Greenpeace came to possess an API memo that described an [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Media, Old King Coal, Politics, USA on Aug 18th, 2009
All I can think of is that old line from Get Smart, the classic television series.
If only he had used his powers for niceness instead of evil.
This story is about the hardest working man (or woman) in DC. It’s none other than that single employee at Bonner & Associates who was deemed too sleezy [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Greenwashing, Politics, Social Justice on Aug 17th, 2009
The American Petroleum Instititute has more than 400 members, so I can’t list them all. But feel free to write and boycott any you find below. You can also do your own research by f0llowing this member’s page at API.
Why do I feel so strongly? In a nutshell, the API is mounting an unethical astroturfing [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, Global Warming Myths, Social Justice on May 18th, 2009
Before starting One Blue Marble, I spent considerable time visiting political web sites to better understand why conservatives think that global warming is a huge hoax perpetrated by scientists (read: socialists) who are hellbent on destroying our cherished way of life.
But I came away empty. There was nothing there, no insight to be gleaned. Instead [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Greenwashing, Politics, USA on May 14th, 2009
Oil and coal companies — the most vocal opponents of US cap-and-trade climate legislation — have spent more than $76 million over the last four months on public relations and mass advertising trying to to defeat the climate bill now before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. When you combine that incredible sum with money [...]
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Politics, USA on Apr 28th, 2009
Avaaz is raising money to run an ad about Exxon and the oil companies on CNN. You can help.
Posted in Activism, Astroturfing, Global Warming Myths, Greenwashing, Media on Apr 21st, 2009
I often write that the science supporting global warming is every bit as strong as the science that proves smoking causes cancer. But I then go even further by linking the fossil fuel and tobacco industries, suggesting deeper sins, claiming that oil companies actually stole a page from the tobacco industry by hiring right-wing and [...]
Posted in Astroturfing, Global Warming Myths on Jan 5th, 2009
The Myth: More than 17,000 American scientists — two thirds with advanced degrees specializing in physics, geo-physics, climatology, meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, chemistry, and biochemistry, have signed a petition disputing the “consensus view” that man is responsible for climate change. If there is a scientific “consensus” that human carbon emissions are responsible for “global warming” [...]
